Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
..."diversity ideology," whites extol the neighborhood's funky charm and eclectic mix of housing and population (race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and family type), and yet maintain mostly homogeneous friendships and make little effort to...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression." The Authors Guild's suit alleged that the massive digitization and preservation effort undertaken by the HathiTrust and its affiliates represented a...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...mountaintop removal mining (MTR) and its impact on Appalachian communities. Described as both a mobilizing effort and an opportunity for civil disobedience, the protest resulted in over one hundred arrests during...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...of the South. Since special issues on Natasha Trethewey and religion in the South are forthcoming, we are not currently reading manuscripts on these topics. We do not consider email...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act, which regulates water quality standards and limits water pollution. Citizen groups...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
William Simpson gravestone (1777), Stone Cemetery, Chester County, South Carolina, March 1996. Rear faces of gravestones carved by Laurence Crone, McGavock Family Cemetery, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978....
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...effort to interfere or coincide with the reenactment, but this does seem hard to believe. This year, the reenactment commemoration was scheduled to begin at 10:00 am in First African Baptist...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...among whites who helped elect Obama and who make up much of the "creative class" flocking to previously abandoned inner-city spaces. The change in DC's fortunes dispersed go-go from the...
A Mess of Poke
...old. So inspired by her memory and fortified by her persistence, I set about recreating her recipe, which I had not tasted since I was about thirteen. Preparing Poke Sallet...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...ten thousand works that comprise the collection of the Gibbes Museum of Art, largely society portraits, landscapes, and miniatures. Interspersed among the white boxes are forty black ones. These signify...